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So how do you decide between "ass" and "arse"? Is there any thinking process other than in theory English folks say, "arse" or are supposed to? :)
So how do you decide between "ass" and "arse"? Is there any thinking process other than in theory English folks say, "arse" or are supposed to? :)
I know this is real deep and perhaps personal but maybe you all can chime in and share your thoughts anyways, eh? Lol.
Years ago I read in a novel about a pub in Scotland called "The Bishop's Arse.
I always thought you said arse instead of ass was because you were trying to be more polite then we Americans can be.
I know you have to be careful using the word fanny in England. My friend married an Englishman and went to London on their honey moon, The family asked her how the flight was, she said "a little long and my fanny is a bit sore." She got a quick language lesson in the difference between England's English and American English.
I live in the US, so i say ass or butt. Thats all
The English do say "Arse" I have been there. But I prefer ASS
if someone is an arse that a major insult in my books - someone who bullshits to cover that they are inept and cant do the job in hand an ass is someome who wipes an arses butt you know what im saying
We have a total ASS as prez. Ass is quicker to type.
Ive always thought that ass was slang for a donkey and arse was what you sat on, or in some peoples cases what they talk out of. Lol.
In the UK if you don't want to do a particular thing you say "I can't be arsed" I don't think it would work with an ass.
It doesn't make a difference. It's warm and tight either way. If he yells out "Oh my God, please don't stop"...with an English accent? All the better.
This view will probably be 'called out'. The American 'ass' is simply another example of the mealy-mouthed prissiness affecting much of that divided nation. In British media, entirely comfortable to broadcast foul-mouthed comedians, male and female, the word arse is generally shown in print as a***.